"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so." ~ George Washington

The ‘Moral Illusion’ of Governmental Authority

Wow! This philosopher says reality is real and he *still* gets to hold a position at a public university. How'd that happen?: "Huemer notes that he likes some aspects of the social-contract theory. 'The only thing that’s wrong with it is that it’s false,' he observes. 'There was no time at which somebody wrote up this contract and everybody signed it.'"